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Post by poseidon on Apr 2, 2006 15:02:40 GMT -5
Am about to begin book 10 of "The Wheel Of Time." Thank Christ theres only two more...  |
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Post by Adam on Apr 2, 2006 17:05:38 GMT -5
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Post by phil on Apr 2, 2006 22:35:42 GMT -5
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Post by poseidon on Apr 3, 2006 18:20:56 GMT -5
Mom sent me these in an email...thought I'd share.   |
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 4, 2006 8:54:31 GMT -5
There it is. The book that started it all, for me . . . *explanation: Flow My Tears was the first PKD book I ever read. That was around 1982 (coincidentally, the year Blade Runner was released). I've revisited it throughout the years here & again, and it always strikes a deeply resonant chord with me. Some day they'll make a damn good movie out of it (I hope). It remains one of my very favorite PKD novels to this day. |
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Post by sisyphus on Apr 4, 2006 15:27:32 GMT -5
 this book is pretty fascinating thus far...anyone ever loved a schizo? (i have) it's quite jarring.. |
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Post by sisyphus on Apr 4, 2006 15:30:38 GMT -5
 Thorn introduced me to this one. Beyond the classics, I'm relatively new to the sci-fi genre. This female author, posing as a man, is pretty good, though. The stories are witty, poetic, thought-provoking, and even sexy. It's too bad the publisher allowed a few typos to slosh around inside. |
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Post by Rit on Apr 4, 2006 15:32:06 GMT -5
what happened to Harold Bloom ??
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Post by sisyphus on Apr 4, 2006 15:35:23 GMT -5
haha...i have to go buy my next bloom reads....these, along with 4 other books, have been swirling around in rotation for the last month or so. i'm on the verge of finishing everything, so that i can begin Bloom with a clean slate....no other distractions on the palette.  |
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Post by chrisfan on Apr 4, 2006 15:40:11 GMT -5
this book is pretty fascinating thus far...anyone ever loved a schizo? (i have) it's quite jarring.. I'm still holding a grudge towards Wally Lamb for She's Come Undone. DOn't get me wrong - it was a fantastically written book. But between my expectations going into it, and the way it was written, I kept on waiting for SOMETHING good to happen to the poor girl's life. When it ended I wanted to throw it across the room yelling "THAT'S IT??" |
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Post by Rit on Apr 4, 2006 15:40:43 GMT -5
ah, that explains everything.
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Post by someone on Apr 4, 2006 17:45:58 GMT -5
this book is pretty fascinating thus far...anyone ever loved a schizo? (i have) it's quite jarring.. One of my favorite books ever. Plus Wally Lamb is a UConn professor. Everyone knows Connecticut is better than everywhere else. |
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Post by rockkid on Apr 6, 2006 11:33:26 GMT -5
Good enough weather for tanning so about to start……..
Jacobs - Road Kill.
Excerpt………………. American is a nation that’s on the move, and so is crime. Mobility makes rape, robbery & murder easier than ever for the predators who prowl the super-highways and lonely bad roads, the rest stops and roadside motels. Truly, they’re hell on wheels—next stop the morgue!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh summer reading* sigh*.
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 6, 2006 11:46:57 GMT -5
 This one is Shirley's second book on the infamous DC comic book's antihero/magus John Constantine from their occult based title Hellblazer which debuted in the late 80's. People familiar with the movie CONSTANTINE may not realize that the casting of Keanu Reeves was controversial because the character of John Constantine is strictly British. Outlaw artist / fringe punk writer John Shirley also penned the novelization of that movie - "Constantine" - and it was a brisk, decent read which shone a lot of light on the goings on of that sometimes hard-to-follow movie. In a wry piece of commentary, Shirley has maintained that in that novelization and film version, the "John Constantine" as depicted by Keanu was some sort of "Alternate Universe" version of the real deal. Which brings us to this second novel John wrote about the character: Hellblazer: Warlord. This one is directly adapted from the hero of the comic book; the dour, very British underworld agent who grapples with demons and angels on his notorious mission to try and gain redemption of his soul by battling demonic forces that bleed through into the real present day world. WARLORD is set in and around modern day Iraq, and takes the reader on a headlong journey right into the middle of the Jihad action going on there. I have only completed the first 2 chapters, and so far I think this one will be (obviously) the superior of the two Constantine novels he has adapted. Rock on, John ~ ! |
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Post by phil on Apr 16, 2006 10:21:27 GMT -5
Just received this book as a "Easter" gift ...  The Popes, the Church and Money : Christianity's economic history, from the origins to this day A 797 pages "brick" written by an economist ... Should be a "fun" read !! |
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